The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-05
Dairy Farming and Legislation.

The farming interest is well represented
upon the Democratic county ticket for the
Legislature, all being farmers save one.
Farming is necessarily leading interest
among a rural population. The first born
of men was "a tiller of the ground, and
from the time of Adam until now agricul-
ture has been the noblest employment of
man. 1t is important, therefore, that the
representatives of an agricultural constit-
uency should be agriculturists themselves,
because they know best what the agrieul-
tural interest most needs. A writer in last
weeks issue of the ADVOCATE paid glow
ing and well-deserved tribute to Mr.. Ben
nett, now candidate for the State Senate.
He is largely interested in farming and
dairying. prosecuting one Of the largest
and most successful dairies in the state.
The dairy interest is one Of the most i'm
portant interests of our farming popula-
ton, and becoming more and more SO, be-
cause of the low price of the cereals and
the unproftableness of their production.
Our farmers will have to turn their atten-
ton, more than ever, to dairying, grazing, the
and culture of fruits and vegetables, if they
would make farming pay. There is more
capital invested in diaries than in banks, as
the following statistics will show:
The aggregate bank capital of the country
is $780, 100000, while the dairy interest has
over So, 600, 000, 900 invested, more than four
times as much as the entire banking capital
of the whole country. The number of mich
cowsin the country is estimated at q 200, 900.
These give an average of $50 gallons of milk
each per annum or an aggregate of Z, 1850, 600
gallons. Four thousand million gallons are
used for butter, CTS, 900, 600 for cheese, and
the remainder is sold through milkmen and
grocers to the 1000, 900 men, women and
children of the United States. The quantity
of butter manufactured and used is about
| 1850, 600 900 and of cheese {, 800, 900 pounds,
The yalpe of our dairy products for the twelve
months, ending September 80, was nearly
$500, 600, 900, which is $50, 900, 900 more than
| the value of our average ANIMAL wheat yield,
/
which is the most valuable of our farm prod
uets To support this immense dairy herd
100, 000, 600 acres of pasture land are required.
1t can from these facts be seen what an
important element the 100000 farmers
of the country form and how their welfare
and prosperity and those of the whole
country are united 1t will also be seen
how important it is to have this interest
properly represented in the halls of legisla-
ton The law should throw the egis of
its protection around il, to save it from the
impositions and depreciation of the manu-
facturers Of spurious butter such as oleo-
margarine, butterine, &C., and to protect
the milkmen from watered and adulterated
milk, whereby the price of pure milk and
butter is lowered in the market, against the
Interests of dairymsn. Mr. Bennett is just
the man to send to the Senate to look after
these interests, and to inaugurste such leg
isation as the dairy interest and the farm-
ing interest generally so seriously needs.
Let dairymen and farmers vote en- npdsse
for the whole Democratic Legislative ticket.